The involved officers have been re-assigned to administrative duty while the investigation is conducted, Wildwood Police said Sunday.

“Chief [Robert] Regalbuto stated that while he finds this video to be alarming, he does not want to rush to any judgment until having the final results of the investigation,” police said.

That video appears to show two officers wrestling a young woman to the ground and punching her in the head on a beach in Wildwood. People can be heard shouting at the woman to stop resisting. A woman who was sleeping on the beach woke up to the disturbance, recorded it on her phone and posted it on Twitter. (Video is embedded at the end of this post.)

The mayor of Wildwood, N.J., said Weinman spit at an officer, as if that somehow justifies the beating that was captured on video. From a report at cbsnews.com:

Wildwood Mayor Ernie Troiano Jr. told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the episode was a "shame," but said police would soon release body camera footage showing officers being insulted and spat upon. Weinman is also charged with spitting at an officer.

"It wasn't just that this officer decided to beat her up," he said. "That wasn't the case."Troiano declined comment on the use of force, saying he didn't know the whole story, but added: "We don't like to see anyone get hit, period. But then again, when you have someone who's aggressively attacking you or spitting at you. I wasn't there. I don't know."

Notice that the mayor admits cops beat up Weinman? It appears he considers that acceptable.

As for comparisons of police brutality against Carol in Missouri and the Weinman incident in New Jersey, a few issues appear clear:

(1) Weinman apparently escaped with no serious injuries; Carol was not so fortunate, winding up with a comminuted fracture of the left arm, meaning it was shattered in more than two places.

(3) Both Carol and Weinman face criminal charges that would have to improve to be dubious. In Carol's case, she was charged with "assault on a law enforcement officer," even though "victim" Jeremy Lynn admitted in his incident report that he "knowingly caused physical contact" with Carol -- and under Missouri law, that means Carol did not "initiate" contact, and she is not guilty; Weinman was charged with aggravated assault on an officer, and that smells funny, based on the report from Oxygen:

In a now-deleted Facebook post, Weinman wrote that before the arrest, she passed a breathalyzer test. Then, she claimed police followed her on the sand.

"I asked them don't they have something better to do as cops than to stop people for underage drinking on the beach,” she wrote on her Facebook, according to New Jersey.com. She said that an officer replied, “I was gonna let you go but now I'll write you up."

She went on to write that she then refused to cooperate with police and didn’t give them her name. As she was backing away, she tripped and fell and she said that’s when one of the officers grabbed her and began tackling her.

Police are asking that anyone present during the incident contact them to assist with their investigation. They should contact Detective Lieutenant Kenneth Gallagher at 609-522-0222.

That suggests Weinman was arrested because she dared question a cop, not because she violated any laws. It also suggests cops instigated the larger incident by following Weinman, rather than just letting her go.

I assume the drinking age in NJ is 21. If so, how did cops have probable cause to believe this girl was violating the law? They can look at someone and tell the difference between 21 and 20? Were they going down the beach carding everyone?

It seems that in America, except on vanishingly rare occasions, the worst that happens to a cop using dangerous, unnecessary or even lethal violence against an alleged suspect is a paid holiday.The thugs who broke Carol's weren't so lucky.No paid holiday for them!